Word: bluster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five days, nobody did anything. The San Francisco papers passed up the story, while Freddie (real name Robert Lawson Preston, 44) tried to bluster it through. "Some of it's true," Preston conceded airily, "and some...
...Kissing Bandit (MGM) pokes some good-humored fun at the buskin-and-bluster heroes of costume melodrama. The picture itself is only a costume piece, with a little vaudeville thrown in. Its best features are the broad comedy by J. Carroll Naish, the sentimental songs sung by Frank Sinatra and Kathryn Grayson, and some lively Spanish dances...
...cyclone called Tallulah, full of sound & fury, pulls wildly at everything around it, but it has a vacuum core of insecurity and loneliness. Behind its protective bluster and bombast, Tallulah's loneliness makes curious demands. She cannot sleep without a radio blaring near by; turn it off and she wakes up. When a power failure stilled her radio in the country, she insisted on keeping a guest up all night, talking, until the electricity came on again. She hates to be alone; she almost never...
...good deal of his life; he cheerfully warns the greenhorns of what gold can do to a man's character. They don't believe him, but they find out for themselves. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart), a morally chaotic child of perhaps 40, starts coming apart early with bluster, fear and suspicion of his partners. Curtin (Tim Holt), a relatively stable youth, nearly cracks, too, under pressure, but gradually comes of age. The men run into jungle Indians, have to deal with a Texan (Bruce Bennett) who wants to muscle in on their little mine, and are hounded by bandits...
...Petrillo has been searching his nimble brain to find new ways to make radio programs, records and juke boxes play cash-jingling tunes on his union till. His edict against recording did not sound like a true pitch to the broadcasting and recording companies. It sounded more like bargaining bluster. His Dec. 31 deadline coincides with contract renewal time for the record 'makers...